Re: What's left over.

Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-11-02T18:22:10Z

On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> I dealt with crash dumps quite a lot over 10 years with SCO UNIX,
> OpenServer and UnixWare: which were addressing the PC market, not
> own hardware.
>
> It's a real worry that writing a crash dump to disk might stomp in the
> wrong place, but I don't recall it ever happening in practice. But
> occasionally, yes, a dump was not generated at all, or not completed.

IIRC, some years ago wuarchive.wustl.edu went down for a few days because the
machine paniced and dumped to the wrong partition...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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